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Public-domain books, scanned art, academic archives and collections built by people who cared far too much about one subject. Bring time.
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The preprint server where most physics, maths and computer science appears long before a journal touches it.
Centuries of natural history books scanned page by page, including illustrations nobody has looked at in decades.
The French national library's digital collection — manuscripts, maps, newspapers and photographs, millions of items deep.
Gigapixel scans from two thousand museums, plus the experiments that let you find your own face in a painting.
Seventeen million scanned volumes from research libraries, with full-text search running across the entire lot.
Books, films, software, concerts and the web itself, archived at a scale no other institution has come close to.
A vast and aggressively plain archive of religious and mythological texts, essentially unchanged since the old web.
Public domain books read aloud by volunteers, free to download, uneven in quality and endless in supply.
Nine hundred thousand digitised items from the New York Public Library, a large share of it public domain.
A daily index of the free courses, audiobooks, films and ebooks scattered across the rest of the internet.
A catalogue page for every book ever published, a good many of them borrowable straight in the browser.
Seventy thousand public domain books, plain and free, from the oldest digital library on the internet.
Public domain classics reset properly — typography fixed, typos corrected, covers designed — and then given away.
Long-form serialised fiction with a reader built for actually reading — chapter memory, no pop-ups, no interruptions.
Every possible page of text that could ever exist, already written, sitting at a findable address.
A hand-maintained index of free books online, run out of Penn since before search engines were any good.
Essays and picture galleries drawn from the strangest corners of out-of-copyright print, film and illustration.
The free library of source texts — treaties, speeches and out-of-copyright novels, transcribed and proofread by hand.
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